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Arsène Wenger has absolutely been there. The man who has the chance to etch a new record for winning FA Cups on 30 May empathised with the fate that befell Steve Clarke and his team, and in particular Adam Federici, the goalkeeper who will not easily find consolation in the tumbling words about how great he has been over a spell spanning more than 200 games for Reading. “Some carry that their whole life,” admitted Wenger about the trauma a decisive big-game error can inflict.
In the bowels of Wembley, Wenger recalled the horror show his club experienced at the same venue in 2011. Against Birmingham City, in the final minute of a League Cup final heading into extra time, Laurent Koscielny and Wojciech Szczesny lurched into one another to collectively botch an attempted clearance, and the loose ball fell to Obafemi Martins to tap into an empty net. Calamitous.
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